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John Singer Sargent: John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame X, Rosina Ferrara, the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, Gretchen Osgood Warren
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155457246
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame X, Rosina Ferrara, the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, Gretchen Osgood Warren, Street in Venice, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau. Excerpt: Gretchen Warren of Beacon Hill, Boston Gretchen Osgood Warren (19 March 1868 September, 1961); the wife of Fiske Warren was an actress, singer and poet. The daughter of Dr. Hamilton Osgood and Margaret Cushing Osgood of Beacon Hill , Boston, Massachusetts , her younger sister was Mary Alden Childers wife of writer and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers . Early life She could sing perfectly in pitch, write like an adult and recite poetry on command. Her upbringing in the affluent environment; that was turn of the century Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts ; allowed her to pursue music and drama to an extremely high level. Just down the street from the Osgood home was the Boston Athenaeum , where a long line of Osgoods, namely Frances Sargent Osgood and Samuel Stillman Osgood , are all listed on the "Register of the Proprietors" for the institution. Gretchen went on to study at Oxford and graduated with honors. John Singer Sargent "Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel, 1903" John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent , the famed portraitist of Boston 's elite, was commissioned by Warren's husband, Fiske Warren to paint her portrait in April 1903. The sitting was done in Fenway Court , then the home of legendary Boston fine arts czar; Isabella Stewart Gardner . Warren is seen seated in a chair with her daughter Rachel Warren. The painting is often considered to be one of Sargent's prime portraits and usually appears in Sargent Estate Calendars and Postcards, Awards Works References (URLs online) Sources A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at John Singer Sargent item Self P
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